diff --git a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ipc/ipc.c b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ipc/ipc.c
index a45ac7fa417b9aa97e673603bd166dda77c5379d..eef80ededdc6a616b6996301e7e058edc8be0a04 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ipc/ipc.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ipc/ipc.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2014-2016, Intel Corporation.
  */
 
+#include <linux/devm-helpers.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
@@ -594,7 +595,6 @@ static void	recv_ipc(struct ishtp_device *dev, uint32_t doorbell_val)
 	case MNG_RESET_NOTIFY:
 		if (!ishtp_dev) {
 			ishtp_dev = dev;
-			INIT_WORK(&fw_reset_work, fw_reset_work_fn);
 		}
 		schedule_work(&fw_reset_work);
 		break;
@@ -885,6 +885,7 @@ struct ishtp_device *ish_dev_init(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 {
 	struct ishtp_device *dev;
 	int	i;
+	int	ret;
 
 	dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev,
 			   sizeof(struct ishtp_device) + sizeof(struct ish_hw),
@@ -892,6 +893,7 @@ struct ishtp_device *ish_dev_init(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 	if (!dev)
 		return NULL;
 
+	dev->devc = &pdev->dev;
 	ishtp_device_init(dev);
 
 	init_waitqueue_head(&dev->wait_hw_ready);
@@ -920,8 +922,13 @@ struct ishtp_device *ish_dev_init(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 		list_add_tail(&tx_buf->link, &dev->wr_free_list);
 	}
 
+	ret = devm_work_autocancel(&pdev->dev, &fw_reset_work, fw_reset_work_fn);
+	if (ret) {
+		dev_err(dev->devc, "Failed to initialise FW reset work\n");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
 	dev->ops = &ish_hw_ops;
-	dev->devc = &pdev->dev;
 	dev->mtu = IPC_PAYLOAD_SIZE - sizeof(struct ishtp_msg_hdr);
 	return dev;
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/devm-helpers.h b/include/linux/devm-helpers.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..50557f04ce80299218695c8bcf522add155d0e32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/devm-helpers.h
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+#ifndef __LINUX_DEVM_HELPERS_H
+#define __LINUX_DEVM_HELPERS_H
+
+/*
+ * Functions which do automatically cancel operations or release resources upon
+ * driver detach.
+ *
+ * These should be helpful to avoid mixing the manual and devm-based resource
+ * management which can be source of annoying, rarely occurring,
+ * hard-to-reproduce bugs.
+ *
+ * Please take into account that devm based cancellation may be performed some
+ * time after the remove() is ran.
+ *
+ * Thus mixing devm and manual resource management can easily cause problems
+ * when unwinding operations with dependencies. IRQ scheduling a work in a queue
+ * is typical example where IRQs are often devm-managed and WQs are manually
+ * cleaned at remove(). If IRQs are not manually freed at remove() (and this is
+ * often the case when we use devm for IRQs) we have a period of time after
+ * remove() - and before devm managed IRQs are freed - where new IRQ may fire
+ * and schedule a work item which won't be cancelled because remove() was
+ * already ran.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
+
+static inline void devm_delayed_work_drop(void *res)
+{
+	cancel_delayed_work_sync(res);
+}
+
+/**
+ * devm_delayed_work_autocancel - Resource-managed work allocation
+ * @dev: Device which lifetime work is bound to
+ * @pdata: work to be cancelled when driver is detached
+ *
+ * Initialize work which is automatically cancelled when driver is detached.
+ * A few drivers need delayed work which must be cancelled before driver
+ * is detached to avoid accessing removed resources.
+ * devm_delayed_work_autocancel() can be used to omit the explicit
+ * cancelleation when driver is detached.
+ */
+static inline int devm_delayed_work_autocancel(struct device *dev,
+					       struct delayed_work *w,
+					       work_func_t worker)
+{
+	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(w, worker);
+	return devm_add_action(dev, devm_delayed_work_drop, w);
+}
+
+static inline void devm_work_drop(void *res)
+{
+	cancel_work_sync(res);
+}
+
+/**
+ * devm_work_autocancel - Resource-managed work allocation
+ * @dev:	Device which lifetime work is bound to
+ * @w:		Work to be added (and automatically cancelled)
+ * @worker:	Worker function
+ *
+ * Initialize work which is automatically cancelled when driver is detached.
+ * A few drivers need to queue work which must be cancelled before driver
+ * is detached to avoid accessing removed resources.
+ * devm_work_autocancel() can be used to omit the explicit
+ * cancelleation when driver is detached.
+ */
+static inline int devm_work_autocancel(struct device *dev,
+				       struct work_struct *w,
+				       work_func_t worker)
+{
+	INIT_WORK(w, worker);
+	return devm_add_action(dev, devm_work_drop, w);
+}
+
+#endif